Sad News
The Anchorage Daily News reports that a Snowmachine kills team dog on Yukon
A dog in the team of Iditarod musher Jennifer Freking from Finland, Minn., died Sunday evening after being hit by a snowmachine near the village of Nulato, according to the Iditarod Trail Committee and Freking’s Web site.
Freking and her husband, Blake, a fellow Iditarod musher, arrived in Nulato on Monday about 4:25 a.m. and left at 5 p.m. They were in 56th and 57th places.
…According to a press release from the Iditarod, “at approximately 10 p.m. (Sunday) evening, a snowmachiner ran into Jennifer Freking’s team on the Yukon River near Koyukuk (upriver from Nulato). Unfortunately, the incident caused the death of a 3-year-old female named ‘Lorne.’ “
The Freking’s raise and race purebred Siberian huskies, which are beautiful dogs if not quite as fast as the purpose-bred racing dogs of others.
Losing a dog is always hard, and a second dog was injured in the “accident”, but to get hit in the middle of a wilderness is mind-boggling. What was anyone doing racing at night along the Iditarod trail at 40 mph during the middle of the race?
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